March 05, 2014, 6:22PM

Additionally, the labels will be changed to place greater emphasis on calorie counts and will clearly list added sugars. This, at a time when diabetes continues to be on the rise, is a real boon to those who consume sugar like there’ll be no more sweets available tomorrow. Full story »

March 03, 2014, 11:27AM

No product, of course, would remain, untouched, on a pharmacy shelf for 42 years. But the rules behind the manufacture of over-the-counter medicines and personal care products have remained in place, gathering dust as it were, for exactly that long. Full story »

December 16, 2013, 6:29PM

Before there were usable antibiotics – we’re talking just 85 years ago – the world was a much more dangerous place. Folks would routinely die from some runaway bacterial infection that no one could do a thing about. Full story »

September 24, 2013, 2:20PM

Forty attorneys general sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday urging the agency to meet its own deadline and regulate electronic cigarettes in the same way it regulates tobacco products. Full story »

September 13, 2013, 1:42PM

The bill introduced late Thursday by Republicans and Democrats would subject large compounding operations to regular inspections, fees and other requirements from the Food and Drug Administration. Currently state pharmacy boards oversee pharmacies, including compounders that mix customized medicines. Full story »

August 24, 2012, 3:20PM

The federal government can't require tobacco companies to put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages to show that smoking can disfigure and even kill people, a divided federal appeals court panel ruled Friday. Full story »